Lewis acids play a major role in all areas of chemistry. For a long time, toxic, corrosive and
oxidizing SbF5 was considered as the strongest Lewis acid known. Lately, species …

Motivated by the discovery of main group Lewis acids that could compete or possibly
outperform the ubiquitous organoboranes, several groups, including ours, have engaged in …

The main feedstock for the value-added phosphorus chemicals used in industry and
research is white phosphorus (P4), from which the key intermediate for forming P (III) …

The development of group 15 Lewis acids is an area of active investigation that has led to
numerous advances in anion sensing and catalysis. While phosphorus has drawn …

The synthesis methods, some reactions, and specific features of the structures of aryl
compounds of pentavalent antimony and examples of their possible use are systematized …

With the view of developing self-activating electrophilic catalysts, we are now investigating
complexes with a Lewis acidic moiety in the immediate vicinity of the transition metal center …

The concomitant activation of carbonyl substrates by two Lewis acids has been investigated
by using [1, 2‐(Ph2MeSb) 2C6H4] 2+([1] 2+), an antimony‐based bidentate Lewis acid …

Three-coordinate main group Lewis acids are exceedingly important reagents in chemical
synthesis. In contrast to the well-established chemistries of neutral group 13 and cationic …

Bifunctional Lewis acidic group 15 compounds have emerged as appealing platforms for
anion sensing and organocatalysis. As part of our interest in the chemistry of these …

We report the results of a computational investigation into fluoride binding by a series of
pentavalent pnictogen Lewis acids: pnictogen pentahalides (PnX5), tetraphenyl …